Greek cross
Cross with arms of equal length. Often used as the basis for churches having a centralized plan, especially in Byzantine architecture.
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Greek cross - A cross in which all the arms are the same length.
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greenstone - jade.
The location is the steps up to a Christian altar, with a Greek cross marked on its frontage, and a candle burning. In the background on the left, we can just make out the shaft of a column in the almost impenetrable darkness.
Sebastiano (1460) a Greek cross form, and turned S. Andrea (1470) into his own interpretation of Vitruvius's templum Etruscum, a single barrel-vaulted nave buttressed by thick-walled side chapels, ...
If the sections are of the same length and cross at the centre, they form a Greek cross; if one section is shorter than the other, intersecting it at about a third of its length, they form a Latin cross.
Also see basilica, compass rose, crossing, Greek cross, labyrinth, and square schematization.
gallery or tribune: An upper story over theaisle which opens onto the nave or choir. It corresponds in length and width to the dimensions of the aisle below it. Contrast with:triforium
See also: aisle, clerestory Greek cross : A cross with four arms ...
Greek cross
cross with arms of equal length, often used as an architectural ground plan.
Greek orders of architecture: see Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, and Orders.
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Those that follow the Greek cross type sometimes have terminal apses and corner pieces between the arms. The fascinating ruins of the old Armenian capital, Ani, include rectangular, domed and polygonal churches.
Also the nave was lengthened in the 17th century changing Michelangelo's Greek cross plan to a Latin cross plan, and consequently the majesty of the dome is much obscured by the balustrade of the Baroque facade.
Greek cross A cross with four arms of equal length. Gresham Group In the early 1930s, artists returning to traditions of the Nagybánya school frequented Gresham Café where the name was later taken from.
 See also: Greek, Painting, Panel, Renaissance, Gothic
  
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